Almudena Cid Tostado
| Almudena Cid | ||||||||||
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Cid in 2008 | ||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||
| Full name | Almudena Cid Tostado | |||||||||
| Country represented |
 Spain | |||||||||
| Born |
June 15, 1980 Vitoria, Spain | |||||||||
| Height | 167 cm (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||
| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | |||||||||
| Years on national team | 1994~2008 | |||||||||
| Club | Beti Aurrera | |||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Anna Baranova | |||||||||
| Former coach(es) | Iratxe Aurrekoetxea | |||||||||
| Eponymous skills | Cid Tostado Element (ball) | |||||||||
| Retired | 2008 | |||||||||
Medal record
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Almudena Cid Tostado (born June 15, 1980 in Vitoria, Spain) is an Individual Spanish Rhythmic Gymnast.
Biography
Almudena started rhythmic gymnastics at the age of six. Her mother originally wanted her daughter to do ballet but, after her family commented on her flexibility she enrolled the young Almudena in rhythmic gymnastics. She was a member of the Spanish National Team since November 1994 until August 2008. She became the first Spanish gymnast in history competing in two olympic finals, Atlanta and Sydney, and she is also the only rhythmic gymnast to make the finals at three and four consecutive Olympic Games - Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 respectively.[1]
In June 2001 the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique announced that Almudena's "body-apparatus relationship" with ball was approved by the Rhythmic Gymnastics Technical Committee. As the code describes the Cid Tostado element:
Starting position: on one knee, leg forward, ball held with the foot. large roll of the ball on both legs. Originality 0.10 (§ 2.6.5.)
She had one of the longest careers as an elite rhythmic gymnast. Almudena lives in Madrid. In 2005, Almudena holds a modelling contract with Nike and she has modelled for an underwear store, Love Store. She speaks Spanish, Basque and English. Almudena was one of the only few Western European gymnasts able to seriously compete against gymnasts from Eastern Europe.
Olympics
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics her final position was 9th, a total score of 38.515 (Rope 9.700, Clubs 9.683, Ball 9.566, Ribbon 9.566) and again at the 2000 Sydney Olympics she finished in 9th, her total score 38.907 (Rope 9.750, Hoop 9.725, Ball 9.691, Ribbon 9.741). In Athens she qualified for the finals in 9th, In the finals she was placed 8th, her best ever placing at an olympics, with a total of 98.450 (Ribbon 23.425, Clubs 24.900, Ball 25.000, Hoop 25.125). She competed in the individual all-around in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She was 10th in the qualifying round and eighth in the final round with a total score of 68.100 (Rope: 17.000, Hoop: 17.000, Clubs: 17.150, Ribbon: 16.950).
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